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type: "Bill"
title: "Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; Georgia Judicial Retirement System; transfer service credit"
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 2 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to service creditable toward retirement benefits under the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia, so as to provide for the transfer of service credit from the Georgia Judicial Retirement System to the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; to provide for the transfer of funds; to provide for the payment for creditable service in the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia for prior service as a member of the Georgia Judicial Retirement System; to provide for conditions and payment; to provide conditions for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2013_14"
identifier: "HB 477"
citation: "Georgia HB 477 (2013_14)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Lindsey", "Howard Maxwell", "Jay Powell", "Rich Golick"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2013-02-25"
last_action: "2014-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b2bf47d-02f1-4c30-a36a-d0af38d9c4d5"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "31335d1fda315a255f99389fe0d41345dc4b86f6472b73f5f3d31aee613f773c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---
# Georgia HB 477 (2013_14) — Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; Georgia Judicial Retirement System; transfer service credit
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 5 of Chapter 2 of Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to service creditable toward retirement benefits under the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia, so as to provide for the transfer of service credit from the Georgia Judicial Retirement System to the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia; to provide for the transfer of funds; to provide for the payment for creditable service in the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia for prior service as a member of the Georgia Judicial Retirement System; to provide for conditions and payment; to provide conditions for an effective date and automatic repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB 477/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/144447.pdf)
2. **LC 21 2121/a** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20132014/132288.pdf)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **1532** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Edward Lindsey — primary (person)
- Howard Maxwell — primary (person)
- Jay Powell — primary (person)
- Rich Golick — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-02-25** House Hopper
- **2013-02-26** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2013-02-27** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2014-02-05** House Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-02-11** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2014-02-11** House Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-02-17** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-06** Senate Committee Favorably Reported `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-03-07** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2014-03-18** Senate Tabled
- **2014-03-18** Senate Taken from Table
- **2014-03-18** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2014-03-18** Senate Passed/Adopted `passage`
- **2014-03-26** House Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-15** House Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-15** Act 497 `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-01** Effective Date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b2bf47d-02f1-4c30-a36a-d0af38d9c4d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).